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Putin gives Trump envoy award for CIA official’s son killed fighting in Ukraine

by The editor•9 August 2025•Posted inBBC US politics

Michael Gloss, 21, who was killed in Ukraine last year, was the son of Juliane Gallina, a CIA deputy director,

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